AND POETRY. INTO SPIRITUALITY

Some pleasurable and provocative poetry books of 2009.

Reading and writing romance novels as a therapeutic healing tool for comfort, health, and to relieve stress.

An exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.

An essay on the significance of bird imagery in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Sky-Lark, and Ode to a Nightingale.

The 19th century Howe family participated in the American Spiritualist movement. Eber, Orville and Myrta Howe all left written accounts of Spiritualist belief. These writings are invaluable in the study of this religious phenomenon.

New poetry book 'States'

A discussion of the benefits and dangers of relying on the Internet to learn about Paganism.

George Herbert and Henry Vaughan are two poets whose styles can be seen as remarkably different and yet still similar. It is said by some that Herbert is the stronger of the two, but by others Vaughan is said to be stronger and Herbert weaker.

In the poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus, one can clearly see Yeats's fascination with the occult as a way of incorporating classic pagan and Celtic myths as a means of creating an alternative reality for his own nationalistic intentions.

While everyone's reasons vary, Cait Johnson, author of Witch in the Kitchen, shares her experiences while on a vegetarian diet.

Covers "writing" from the general to the more intricate aspects.

Poetry summary and analysis of A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne, including forms, devices and themes.

A discussion of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's spirituality and its reflection in his works, specificaly "The Holy Grail."

Despite her rigid Puritan background, Anne Bradstreet often wrote on subjects in order to encourage those who felt oppressed by those beliefs and make a significant impact on establishing early American literature as a woman writer.

TS Elliot theorized that poetry changed post Milton so that thought and feeling became disassociated, as opposed to earlier writers, who thought the two were one and the same.

The thought process and cultural worldview of the two authors are compared to those of their native cultures to determine whether their style of artistic presentation would make them successful storytellers among their own people.

William Wordsworth and William Blake shared the belief that the Imagination, or as Blake understood it as spiritual revelation, informed and gave breadth to poetry.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment.

A contrasting examination of both "The Sower and the Seed" and the "Imperial Message" and the purpose parables serve to their readers.

Although I agree with Mr. McElrath that Bradstreet's works are 'of primary literary and historical significance,' I utterly disagree with his statements of her work being completely corrupted by other persons.

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson's works have numerous differences. Compared to Dickinson's short and seemingly simple poems, Whitman's are long and often complex. Yet both twentieth century writers share several similarities when delved into thoroughly.